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The Wall: A World Divided
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Artist
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Eric Strange, director.
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Studio
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PBS
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Format
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DVD Widescreen
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DVD Encoding
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MPAA Rating
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Not Rated
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UPC
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841887012799
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Runtime/Release Date
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1 hr/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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34542
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This item is not available.
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Description
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When Berliners woke on Sunday morning, August 13, 1961, they found their city and their lives cut in two by a wall of barbed wire and concrete blocks. East Germans who now wanted to flee the oppressive East German regime were forced to escape under, over, or even through the heavily guarded wall, often with tragic results. This DVD explores the lives of ordinary citizens who found themselves caught in the politics of the Cold War and trapped by this visible manifestation of the East-West divide. Interviews with former U.S. and Soviet presidents George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and U.S. Secretary of State James Baker offer startling insights into the political machinations that toppled the Wall.
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